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Baby needs bottle to fall asleep, how do I change this

ascott654ascott654 member
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My daughter is soon to be 5 months. She will not nap or go to bed without having a bottle. Therefore when she wakes up in the middle of the night she does not go back to bed without having a bottle. I do not think she is always hungry - sometimes she will only take 2 oz (sometimes she will take a full bottle). My question is how do I break this habit we got in to. I need to be Eat- Play- Sleep. We have the wrong order going on here.
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Re: Baby needs bottle to fall asleep, how do I change this

  • emmy236emmy236 member
    We have started taking baby steps. His bedtime is 9 so at 8 he gets a bottle, then a bath if its bath night, if not DH plays with him. At 9 it's swaddle and bedtime. He's waking a little earlier. When we used to feed at 9 he would wake up at 330 to eat, give or take. Now that's its at 8 he gets up around 230. That MOTN bottle we've slowly cut back on the amount. From a 5oz bottle to a 3oz bottle. In a few more weeks we'll cut down again. He's still up by 6am no matter what. We've always taken his lead so the 9pm bedtime was his natural time. We EP so it's all breast milk, but we do put a little cereal in his last bottle (about half a tsp) to combat reflux but that hasn't changed how much or when he wants to eat.
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  • Ashfann93Ashfann93 member

    I found that it helped to live in the moment and not worry about what might happen down the road.

    Totally agree.
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  • =Lee=B=Lee=B member
    Don't fix what ain't broken.  If she is sleeping and napping that's reason alone to celebrate...to me, it doesn't matter how they went down (or where) if they are sleeping then it's all good!  If it bothers you then maybe pick one nap time a day to try and get her down without a bottle.  Ease her into it...she's comforted by the bottle and a full belly and babies need comfort!

     

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  • ascott654ascott654 member
    thank you!
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